I’ve been seeing status updates like the one below floating around social media by those claiming to be apart of the religious community. As someone who considers himself a part of the faith community, I’m going to hope that this type of rhetoric represents a fringe opinion of a small segment of the faith community that […]
Today’s guest post is written by John Davis: Dementia is a lost-ness, a wild unknowing, an uncomprehending path that leads nowhere and means nothing. It does not easily lend itself to sentimentality or imagined goodness. It is stark and haunting. The distance and isolation that falls over a family is inescapable, as is […]
Today’s guest post is written by Susie Finkbeiner “It’s okay,” I said. “You can go.” I smoothed her hair with the palm of my hand. So soft. I never would have known how soft. I’d never have dreamed of touching her hair before. She would have frowned at me. Before. She would have wondered what […]
This past week, Tyler Doohan, an 8 year old from New York, saved six of his relatives from a burning home only to die while trying to save his handicapped grandfather from the inferno. As I read Tyler’s story, I can’t help but remember back to five years ago when I unzipped two small body […]
On Tuesday morning all I knew was that I was setting up an O’Connor table at the Heartland Hospice event that we were co-hosting. I got the table cloth & brochures all set out, greeted the attendees, and sat down in the back intending to “work” on my computer when the speaker, Barbara Karnes, a hospice […]